Labour Leader & Unite Officer Harass Arts Charity!

The dimwit "leader" of Sandwell Council,  Labour's Darren "The Turdmeister" Cooper, has now teamed up with a Unite the Union Regional Officer, Brian Rickers, to give me a hard time. You would think they probably had enough on their plates with their respective "day jobs" but they both seem very anxious to silence The Skidder.

Earlier this year I did quite a lot of VOLUNTARY work for an arts charity in Birmingham. Voluntary means, er, unpaid. Unfortunately, this couple of clowns now think it if fair game to copy in the charity in their tweets to me, and this Rickers character made the incorrect assumption that I worked for them. Clearly they wanted to damage my alleged "employment" and to try and do harm the reputation of the charity in some way by linking me to it.

Hence we have this sort of thing:

12/10/14 - Cooper starts following the charity;

29/10/14 - Rickers  - "..@sandwellleader my mate works with [me] at [the named charity];

29/10/14 - Rickers - "..@sandwellleader Julian one of my Colleges [sic] nows [sic] you from [named charity] do you work there?"

29/10/14 - Rickers - "...@sandwellleader Jules are you there? Lost your tongue well well well [named charity] yes of no?"

29/10/14 - Rickers - Further tweet about the location of the charity copying in Darren Cooper;

29/10/14 - Rickers - To Mr X copying in Darren Cooper "X did u know Jules works with a friend of mine at [named charity] small world";

31/10/14 - Rickers - "...@sandwellleader Jules Hows the [named charity]";

05/11/14 - Rickers - "....@sandwellleader Jules what if someone stood outside [x] taking photos of u in your [named charity] top is that acceptable"

05/11/14 - Rickers - "...@sandwellleader Hi Jules I've been to your local Today [named pub] with my mate that works with you at [named charity]";

14/11/14 - Rickers - refers to me as "vermin" & copies in the charity;

18/11/14 - Rickers - charity copied in on a further two mails;

26/11/14 - Rickers - "@sandwellleader Did you know my mate works with our Jules at [the named charity]

I don't know what Unite the Union get up to these days but if this sort of thing went on in the workplace I think you would call it harassment. But then Rickers is only one of their Regional Officers.....

In very hot water now!

Cooper himself then joined in the bullying, copying the charity in on three tweets dated 27th, 28th and 30th November respectively. In particular he tweeted on 28th November, 2014, "Why have you blocked [Rickers] Jules was it is tweet to [named charity]? And his friend who works for them. What are you hiding?"

 But then he is just the thick leader of a major public authority with a multi-million pound budget isn't he?

Unfortunately, things have now taken a very sinister turn with a new trolling account being set up last night (reported to Twitter and now the subject of a police complaint) and as you will see below this story has a very unusual twist!

The Skidder has been the subject of a few troll attacks in the past but nothing like the current one. It all started with Ian Crow - see my blog of 25/02/14 "The Curious Case of Ian Crow". Then there was the mysterious tag team of Cllr Cooper and Paul Kerton. Cooper insists he doesn't know Kerton who works for SMBC and is the brother or half brother of Cllr Frear. See my blog, "Twitter Troll No. 2 - Double Header - Darren Cooper and Paul Kerton" of 3rd August, 2014.

Other trolls have come and gone. The last one had just one solitary follower - a Mr Brian Rickers of Unite the Union.

Twitter is so slow that the current troll is still going but the police are now involved. This is a concerted effort to smear The Skidder and my wife. (Curiously the troll refers to her as "wifey" which is a derogatory expression used by all the trolls right back to Ian Crow and, even more strangely, by Labour "leader" Darren Cooper himself in one attack he launched upon her directly).

For those unfamiliar with Twitter this troll has followed hundreds of people in an attempt to get them to retweet and spread the defamatory comment far and wide. (Anyone reading this who wants to retweet any of the troll account should know that my wife and I WILL take steps to identify them and WILL sue them! You have been warned!)

At the time of writing the troll has followed 852, and been followed by 81 including local personality Adrian Goldberg and a BBC journalist.

Of the 122 tweets in the last few hours the troll has either mentioned the named charity or posted a photograph of me in the charity's t-shirt (not a pretty sight) on a large number of the tweets
(besides also using my photo and now my wife's photo on the profile - and, though, it keeps changing, my full name). The troll has also claimed that I personally committed fraud whilst working at a firm of solicitors and, worst of all, that I killed a child whilst drunk-driving. I am consulting m'learned friends....

BUT HERE'S THE CURIOUS THING: let's just have a look at Councillor Darren Cooper's own account from yesterday:

1. Tweets about A&E overhaul;

2, Follows two people PLUS THE TROLL account;

3. Tweets about George Osborne.

He has tried to conceal this timeline this morning by deleting a tweet but I have the screenshots. The significance of this is that he was the FIRST follower of the troll account and started following SEVEN HOURS BEFORE the troll's first tweet! Cooper - you have got an awful lot of explaining to do!


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